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(31 May 2016, 10:40)NorthernRaider Wrote: ........
FYI chaps some of the HAM guys in the US are now using DRONES to hoist very very long wires high into the sky to broadcast then obviously landing them and hiding them when not in use.

NR, I just happened upon tis comment you made awhile back.

I think that the idea of using drones to hoist antennas is just that, an idea.

When I think drones, I think of those multi- prop radio controlled gizmos. Assuming enough lift to get a light wire antenna up in the air, the first squirt of RF ( Radio Frequency transmission) would in all likelihood saturate the drone's radio control receiver, control would be lost and the drone would crash...

However, a tried and tested way to get big antennas aloft without towers and masts is to use Sled kites. There are guys in the midlands who haul up some pretty big arrays this way, and get good results too.